Shopping for England

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Synopsis

Historian Mica Nava presents a documentary revealing how, in the early 20th century, Woolworths and Selfridges began a consumer revolution that changed the face of the high street and London's West End.

In 1909, Gordon Selfridge offered up his emporium in Oxford Street as a new social space for Edwardian women keen to escape the restrictions of the past century, and Frank Woolworth raised shoppers' aspirations in Liverpool by offering mass-manufactured goods at low, fixed prices.

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Presenter

Mica Nava

Broadcasts

1. Tue 12 Jun 2007
   22:50
   BBC Four
2. Tue 24 Jun 2008
   23:20
   BBC Two (England, Scotland, Wales (Analogue) only)
3. Tue 24 Jun 2008
   23:50
   BBC Two (Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland (Analogue), Wales only)
4. Mon 24 Nov 2008
   23:10
   BBC Four